SOLUTION: A cheetah can run 70 miles in 1 hour. How many feet per second is this?

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Question 833849: A cheetah can run 70 miles in 1 hour. How many feet per second is this?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) About Me  (Show Source):
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Interesting wording. The rate itself has more meaning than the way the cheetah can run as described. A cheetah cannot run 70 miles in 1 hour; the cheetah can run at 70 miles per hour for maybe a minute, and then needs to rest. Forget that 1 hour of running business.

You really want to change 70%28miles%2Fhour%29 into the equivalent in feet per second.

Use these:
5280 feet = 1 mile
1 hour = 3600 minutes